Word: relays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four Princeton and four Pennsylvania trackmen found a way to make their competition more exciting-by running against each other successively by twos in a mile race instead of simultaneously at 440 yards. That was the origin of modern relay racing, since become the most popular form of intercollegiate track competition, and the beginning...
...were cheering the Sikorsky's arrival last week, 23 men on Midway Island, a tiny tuft of green in the Pacific, were cheering the arrival of Pan American's air base construction ship North Haven, advance agent in the establishment of Pacific air service. An isolated cable relay station for 32 years, Midway is known to most mariners merely as a lighthouse. In charge of the small colony, which includes five Chinese and seven Japanese, is Acting Cable Superintendent G. B. Perry, who is also U. S. Naval custodian of the island...
...Medley was won by Chicago's Lake Shore A. C. relay team in record time. N. Y. A. C.'s Leonard Spence retained his titles at 220-yd. breast stroke and 300-yd. medley. Diving titles went to Miami's Elbert Root (low-board), Detroit's Dick Degener (high-board...
...best efforts of the Crimson natators could only gain a fourth and two sixths. The medley relay team of Dick Fisher, Vie Leventritt, and Roy Wallace took the fourth while Leventritt in the 200-yard breast stroke and Fisher in the 150-yard back stroke both took sixth...
Saturday evening--Finals for the 100-yard free style swim, 8.30 o'clock; life saving buoy rescue competition, 8.50 o'clock; final for the 440 free style swim, 9.10 o'clock; final for the three-meter high board, fancy diving, 9.20 o'clock; and final for the 400-yard relay, 10.20 o'clock